You Ran prepared the meal, and the three of us sat at the table to eat together.

Xiao Jingqi put the fish in my bowl and said to me warmly, "Eat more." ”

I pursed my lips and smiled, remembering that when I was a child, he would put fish in my bowl every time, and under the gaze of Uncle Cui, I didn't care if Uncle Cui had anything to eat.

I like to be loved by him gently, that was my wish at that time, and I like him to spoil me.

I suddenly remembered what those villagers said, saying that the emperor was looking for a concubine, so I raised my eyes and looked at Xiao Jingqi, and asked casually, "Who is the emperor's concubine today?" I heard outside just now that the emperor's concubine was missing, so he sent troops so aggressively. ”

His hand holding the chopsticks suddenly stiffened, and he looked at me quietly.

You Ran glanced at Xiao Jingqi's face, but was silent, eating silently, as if he didn't care about him.

After Xiao Jingqi coughed lightly, he took a sip of water in a panic before slowly shaking his head and saying, "I don't know." ”

Oh!

I just answered softly, not paying attention to the uneasy look on his face.

He put down his chopsticks and said to me seriously, "After going to Qingfeng Gate, Zhu'er, you can go with me." ”

I looked up at his expectant look and didn't answer him.

I don't know why I didn't say yes to him, I always feel like I still have something in my heart.

And his affectionate eyes have a very complicated expression, a little sad, and too much longing.

He said that if I went with him, I would go to the Southlands with him, but I had no such plans, and I never thought of leaving the Northlands.

My silence, he was very unhappy, I saw that there was no smile on his face.

I didn't know if he slept well that night, but I didn't fall asleep for a long, long time, and I kept thinking about his words.

He asked me to go with him.

At dawn, we set off for Aomine Gate.

When I arrived at the Aomine Gate, I silently looked at the mountain, and the mountain still looked the same way. In the mountains of Qingfeng, the buildings of Qingfeng Gate are still the same.

I don't know if those people in the mountains are okay, You Ran saw me this time, and he told me that he hadn't been back to Qingfeng Gate for a long time. He didn't know anything about the door.

At the foot of the mountain of Qingfeng Gate, the villagers who live by the mountain are all poor people rescued by Qingfeng Gate, and they rely on the fame of Qingfeng Gate to live under this mountain. The Aomine Gate is also protecting the comfortable lives of these people from being destroyed.

Xiao Jingqi and I rode horses in the village under the Qingfeng Gate. On the only dirt road in the village, I dismounted and looked intently at the houses on the side of the road.

Xiao Jingqi looked at my expression, saw that I was in a happy mood, and seemed to be very nostalgic for this place, and asked me exploratorily, "Hu'er likes it here?" ”

I smiled at the villagers and casually replied, "Yes." ”

Some villagers looked at me in a daze, and some villagers were suddenly frightened as if they had seen a ghost, but immediately looked at me blankly.

I was a little puzzled by the expressions of the villagers, and I didn't pay much attention to Xiao Jingqi's words.

In this village, there are some villagers who are also people on the verge of life and death that I once saved, and when they came, they were very happy, forgot their pain, and lived here again.

While I was greeting the villagers with a smile, a one-year-old man with a beard and a coarse cloth hat walked towards me in the crowd, looked at me carefully and asked in surprise, "Are you?" ”

He looks like he knows me, and he doesn't know me well. And he is the villager I once saved, Uncle Huo, because of the treatment of her wife, borrowed money from the villagers of his same village, because he did not repay the money, the villager went to his house and forcibly wanted to marry his daughter as a concubine, Huo Laobo was beaten by the villager because he refused, and I happened to pass by and was saved.

Uncle Huo was afraid of the villagers' retribution, and when he thought of moving, I asked his family to move under this Qingfeng Gate. Uncle Huo's wife passed away a year after moving here, and he still lives with his daughter at the foot of this Qingfeng Mountain. It has been so many years, and his daughter must have already started a family.

At this time, Uncle Huo didn't know me very well, could it be because I had been gone for seventeen years, and he didn't know me?

My heart was heavy, so I went to his side first and called him affectionately, "Uncle Huo, it's me, Yihua." ”

When I said my name, all the villagers were shocked, and Uncle Huo also looked at me in disbelief.

At this time, Xiao Jingqi grabbed my hand, I felt his hand trembling, I glanced at him, I didn't understand, why Xiao Jingqi was so nervous. But I didn't have time to care about his unnaturalness, I still looked at Uncle Huo, and said to him again, "It's me, Yihua, Uncle Huo doesn't remember me?" ”

Uncle Huo seemed to recognize me at this time, and knelt down, and the villagers knelt down in front of me, and they all shouted, "Master Yimen is back...... The Lord of the Second Gate is back......"

Seeing their elated appearance, I felt like I was back home, back to my long-lost loved ones.

The news of my return soon spread to the Aomine Gate, and the people from the Aomine Gate came down the mountain in person.

I have only arrived at the mountainside of Qingfeng Gate, and the people of Qingfeng Gate have already come down, and the leader is Yang Zuo, who had some authority in Qingfeng Gate back then, and he was still a young man in Qingfeng Gate, and now he is strong.

He saw that my expression was the same as Uncle Huo's, and he was stunned for a while before approaching me. I know that he is also confirming my identity, after all, as Xiao Jingqi said, I have been sleeping for seventeen years, and it should be seventeen years since I was separated from them.

Seventeen years, they may not have heard from me, but it is inevitable that they will be surprised when they appear again.

I smiled at him and called out to him, "Yang Zuo." ”

He was stunned by my voice, and he was stunned to react, maybe it was after so many years, and hearing my voice again made him feel uncomfortable.

Xiao Jingqi beside me was silent, but his hand grabbed me tightly, as if he was afraid that I would suddenly get rid of him, I always felt that he was afraid that I would run away for some reason. I tried to pull my hand out of his palm, but he wouldn't let go, so I had no choice but to let him pull it.

Yang Zuo's eyes suddenly lit up, and the excitement was really unprecedented. He really saw that I was happy, and after kneeling down on one knee, he bowed in front of me, "Lord B. ”

The disciples behind him also knelt down to worship me. I finally broke free from Xiao Jingqi's grip on my hand and stepped forward to help Yang Zuo up.

Xiao Jingqi quickly followed up and whispered in my ear, "Do you really want to go up?" ”

I gave him a dull look and said flatly, "Of course, this is my home." ”

I looked at him, and his eyes were melancholy, and when he saw that I was persistent, he stopped me from doing anything.

When Yang Zuo saw You Ran beside me, he was also suspicious, or You Ran had not returned to the sect for a long time, which also made him suspicious.

After coming to the main hall of Qingfeng Gate, I realized that Yang Zuo is now the master of Qingfeng Gate, and all the way up the mountain, the disciples who passed by greeted Yang Zuo very politely and called him the master of the door.

I think I haven't been in the sect for so many years, and the master of the sect has changed. I don't feel uncomfortable, and Yang Zuo is still so respectful to me that it makes me look at him differently, at least it proves that in their hearts, I am still the high-ranking and respected master.

Yang Zuo asked me to sit in the right seat, I waved my hand and said no, I am no longer the master of Qingfeng Gate, so I don't have to be treated with such high courtesy.

I just sat on the side, and he didn't sit on the main seat, he also sat on the side, he didn't dare to be big in front of me, I knew his heart.

It's just that after saluting me with tea, the first thing he said made me unable to figure out what was going on?

He said, "The subordinates really can't believe that the door master is still alive, fifteen years ago, Li Amaranth came back and said that the door master was seriously injured and was in danger, so she told her subordinates to let her subordinates act as agents for all Qingfeng Gate matters, and the subordinates have been waiting for the door master to come back, and then Li Amaranth and the disciples went to find the door master, but there was no news." ”

When I was surprised by what Yang Zuo said, I looked at Xiao Jingqi in contemplation, and saw that his face was pale, as if he was not very comfortable.

But I still didn't have time to take care of him, and looked at Yang Zuo in a daze. "Fifteen years ago, you say?"

I asked in a deep voice.

Yang Zuo confirmed the time again and said, "Yes, it was the second year of Yanxing." ”

When is the second year of Yanxing?

Didn't Xiao Jingqi say that I had been asleep for seventeen years? I should have left Qingfeng Gate seventeen years ago, fifteen years ago, and there was Yanxing as the era name at that time.

I was stunned for a moment.

Li Amaranth and I went to Yinshan to find the white worm, but it was also seventeen years ago, and it was also the fifth year of Huangxing, why couldn't the time be right?

So, Li Amaranth and I should have lived for another two years after coming out of Yinshan, but why am I still coming out of Yinshan now?

Did I ever come back to Yinshan again?

I'm confused, and there are some things that I really don't remember.

Yang Zuo said again respectfully and gently, "Back then, I blamed my subordinates, I didn't have insight into the heart of the door master, and let the door master go to danger alone, assassinating the empress dowager of the dynasty to avenge it, so that I was in danger and was seriously injured......

Inexplicably, I felt a burst of excitement in my heart, as if some memories came flooding back to my heart.

A phantom appeared in front of my eyes, it was the white wolf that jumped up, was tearing at the officers and soldiers with its sharp claws, biting the crowd with its sharp wolf teeth, a sound of swords and swords, I stared, and I saw a sharp arrow whistling and passing through my chest......

I felt a puncture in my chest, my eyes closed, and I fainted.

Before fainting, Xiao Jingqi's nervous call was heard, "Hu'er...... ......

Before fainting, Yang Zuo in the Qingfeng entrance hall seemed to have run in front of me......

I finally couldn't see clearly before I fainted completely.

Was it because he fainted with fear at the sight of himself being pierced through the chest by a sharp arrow?

Chaotic, confused, I seem to wake up, but I don't seem to wake up, I always feel like someone is feeding me medicine and injecting me true qi.

From time to time, I often hear a call in my ears, "Hu'er, wake up, wake up quickly, Hu'er......"

It seemed like Xiao Jingqi was calling me, and it was like Yang Zuo was calling me, and I couldn't hear the voice very clearly.

I had a dream, I dreamed that I was lying on the ice bed, and Master Cui was transporting my true qi, and put a pill in my mouth, helping me to eat it, and from time to time he muttered next to me, "Zhu'er, this soul rejuvenation pill is a pill carefully practiced by Uncle Cui, I hope to keep you alive again." ”

Cui Shibo was sad and wiping tears.

He was old, full of gray hair, but he asked me to be well with sadness and vagueness.

I felt like a wisp of soul floating in front of Uncle Cui, watching Uncle Cui grow old and watching Uncle Cui fall.

I desperately called out to my uncle, but he didn't seem to hear my shouts, I wanted to touch him, but I couldn't......

What's going on! What's wrong with me!

I burst into tears, crying hysterically, but no one paid any attention to me.

I'm calling Xiao Jingqi's name.

I'm complaining to him about why he left me.

I hate him.

In a daze, I felt that Xiao Jingqi was replying to my words, I heard his voice, he was saying to me that I will never leave you again, I will never let you be hurt again, please wake up quickly, please......

I don't know if it was a dream or a hallucination, but I just heard his voice.

"Hu'er, wake up, even if I die, it doesn't matter, please......"

"Hu'er, you can do whatever you want in the future, I won't stop you anymore, you can do anything......"

"Hu'er...... For your master, for your children, wake up ......"

I seem to have spent a time on the edge of life and death, and I can't get out of the dream, and Xiao Jingqi's words have been floating in the empty and illusory world above.